Fencing Your Home
When you contemplate your yard and landscape, your fence installation is only limited by your creativity and imagination. You do not have to draw a straight line and install a boring fence. You can use a panel fence, a picket fence, a chain-link or vinyl fence, a ranch style fence or other design. Before you choose your materials and design your fence layout be sure you check with your city or town to understand restrictions and code as it relates to fencing on your property. You may have to build your fence a certain number of feet away from your property line, or limit your fence to a certain height. You will have to check to be sure there are no cables, pipes or lines buried underground before you start digging postholes. Your local utility company will check your property and mark any spots where you must avoid underground utility installations. After you have done the prerequisite planning, you must choose the type of fence you want to build. Vinyl Fencing Installation - Because you cannot cut vinyl fencing, your measurements and dimensions must be accurate. Vinyl fencing is typically ordered and arrives pre-assembled. Measurements between posts and tolerances are critical if the fence is going to be straight. You may want to hire an installer so that you can depend on their warranties and measurements to protect you if the material they receive is not accurately measured and cut. If you are hiring a professional, check references and go look at some of their previous fence installations. If you choose to order and install the fence yourself, be absolutely sure that you leave room for the vinyl to shift. Do not install it so that it is cinched or tight you will have to take it apart and reinstall it or it will bend and warp. Installation - Chain link fencing is durable and resists damage by the elements, animals and children. If you choose to install a chain link fence, do not go with the less expensive, lighter gauge material. Buy the ‘industrial strength’ chain link material used for playgrounds, parking lots, etc. You can download an installation

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guide directly from the Chain Link Fence Manufacturers Institute, and use that document to walk you through the proper (http://codewriters.com/asites/main-pub.cfm?usr=clfma). Wooden Fence Installation – Wooden fences will take more maintenance. If you are going to install a wooden fence and you want to decrease your maintenance requirements, purchase pre-treated wood or stain and coat your fence pieces with clear sealer. Note: Repairs to Wooden Fences - If you do not need to install a new fence or fence posts, perhaps you at least have damage to repair. If you live in a frost zone, your fence posts may shift and heave because of the freeze and thaw. Do not try to straighten the posts by pushing against them or you will probably just break the post! Dig the soil away from the base of the post on the side to which the post is tilted. Then straighten the post and use the soil you removed from one side to fill in the hole on the opposite side of the post. If you have to replace the horizontal railing on a wooden fence, you will have to take apart the pickets (or posts) first. You will probably want to replace both rails between the pickets as long as you have taken the structure apart. You can reduce rot in wooden fences by using pre-treated wood designed to mitigate rot and moisture, or you can stain and seal your fence posts, pickets and/or rails using a synthetic wood sealer To lay out your fence, stake out where you want your fence to go and then use heavy string to stretch between each of the post locations to be sure your layout will work. If your fence is going to wander up or down a hill, you can have the fence follow the slope of the hill or you can keep the fence level and reduce or increase the height of each post and the sections between so that the fence itself is of varying height but each section is level. If you live in area that is subject to frost, be sure you sink your postholes before the frost line and be sure your postholes are wider at the bottom, and then taper to a narrower width at the top of the hole. Then place the post in the hole and fill the hole with concrete.


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